Affective and Emotional Economies in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Affective and Emotional Economies in Medieval and Early Modern Europe edited by Andreea Marculescu, Charles-Louis Morand Métivier.

This book analyzes how acts of feeling at a discursive, somatic, and rhetorical level were theorized and practiced in multiple medieval and early-modern sources (literary, medical, theological, and archival). It covers a large chronological and geographical span from eleventh-century France, to fift...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Marculescu, Andreea (Editor), Métivier, Charles-Louis Morand (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Series:Palgrave Studies in the History of Emotions
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Civilization—History.
Europe—History—476-1492.
Europe—History—1492-.
Intellectual life—History.
Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:Loaded electronically.
Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.
Table of Contents:
  • I: Introduction; Andreea Marculescu and Charles-Louis Morand Métivier
  • II: Subverting Emotional Norms
  • Passionate Politics: Emotion and Identity Formation Among the Menu Peuple in Early Fifteenth-Century France; Emily J. Hutchison
  • Pity as a Political Emotion in Early Modern Europe; Natalia Wawrzyniak
  • Issuing from the great flame of this joy”: Louise of Savoy, Marguerite of Navarre and Emotional Intimacy; Tracy Adams
  • Histories of Emotion and Power: Catherine de Medici’s Advice to her Sons; Susan Broomhall
  • III: Affective Encounters
  • Emotional Contagion: Évrart de Conty and Compassion; Beatrice Delaurenti
  • Love Conventional/Love Singular: Desire in Middle English Lyric; Sarah Kathryn Moore
  • Internal Theatre and Emotional Scripts in French Jesuit Meditative Literature; Jennifer Hillman
  • IV: Authoring Emotions
  • Cruelty and Empathy in Théodore Agrippa d’Aubigné’s Les Tragiques: The Gaze of and on the Reader; Kathleen Long
  • Narrating a Massacre: the Writing of History and Emotions as Response to the Battle of Nicopolis (1396); Charles-Louis Morand Métivier
  • ‘Doel’ in situ: The Contextual and Corporeal Landscape of Grief in La Chanson de Roland; Angela Warner
  • Performing Chivalric Masculinity: Morality, Restraint, and Emotional Norms in the Libro del Cavallero Zifar; Kim Bergqvist
  • V: Afterword; Stephanie Trigg.

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